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It is be ing sponsored by the South Car olina Soybean Association in co operation with the Clemson Uni versity Cooperative Extension Service, the Vocational Agri culture Department, andElanco Products Company. I do want to suggest that you keep the weeds out of Soybeans if you expect to win. Of course, we know that you will h^ve to have good weather conditions. The beans should have already been planted; however, it isn’t impossible for beans planted now to win the contest. Soybeans for top yields should have been limed and fertilized with at least 400 pounds of 0-10-20 or a similar grade of fertilizer. Ap plications for consideration til' Ready For Your Vacation? Everything in shape? Oooh—your body’s messed up? Full of dents — paint chipped up? Ashamed to show it in public? BRING IT ON DOWN TO US CECILS BODY WORKS CORNER OF EAST CAROLINA AVE AND SOUTH WOODROW ST. • BODY WORK • 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE • PAINTING must be filed by August 15. There is a committee to be ap pointed to determine the yield. We look forward to working with a number of farmers in Lau rens County and hope that we will have the winner. Last week we had the oppor tunity of touring the Livestock Disease Eradication Lab in Co lumbia to look at the facilities. As many of you know, this is the place where you can carry your sick animals or poultry to have the disease diagnosed. It has proven to be a tremendous asset to South Carolina, as any producer is welcomed to use this facility. They do encourage farmers to bring live speci mens, as they feel that they can do a much better job of de termining the problem with a live animal. We were told that many times the animals were brought down there too far decomposed for them to do much good with them. In addition to the facilities, they have men in the field checking for such dis eases as hog cholera, Brucel losis, etc. We were told by Dr. Boyd that cholera and garbage go together, and that after 1973, there would be no more garbage fed in South Carolina, and he felt that this would go a long way toward eradicating this di sease. I saw some of the best corn this week that I believe I have seen in Laurens County at this time of year, fred and Rufus Wood have fields of corn that is waist high and black as a crow. It looks like the mid west. In talking with Fred, he says that they have 300 acres of it with a good stand, side dress ed and laid by. Fred said he plans to fill up all the silos that he has and possible dig a trench silo. Corn is king with the dairymen. •••••• FAIR PLAY HE WAS REARED THAT WAY FAIR PLAY ... HE HAS LIVED THAT WAY FAIR PLAY HE WILL SERVE THAT WAY FOR RESPONSIBLE, PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT WITH EYE TOWARD ECONOMY. Support ’ -,4. " FARMS and FOLKS Chemical Weed Control - We want to encourage everyone to read carefully labels when ap plying chemicals. This goes for insecticides as well as herbi cides. This is not only advised from a standpoint of health haz ards, but also from a standpoint of damaging neighboring plants, gardens, etc. BY COUNTY AGENT Home Economists MOLES - Moles normally invade your lawn or flower bed for food. They love grubs, so if you do have moles, treat the soil with Toxafene Chlordane or some similar insecticide. Dust the soil good and water it in. This will destroy the food source and moles will go away. FALL TOMATOES - Fall to matoes should be planted a- round July 1st and to the 10th. That means that seed should be sown now. Seed beds should be prepared around the 1st of July. We suggest you use the follow ing varieties - Marion or Man- alucie. Don’t forget the first S. C. Pork-O-Rama on June 17,atthe State Fairgrounds in Columbia. Dip fingers in salt to prevent fish from slipping away when cleaning. Bread kept in its original wrapper or in a plastic bag, and stored in the refrigerator will not mold. The 4-H Tractor Driving Contest will be held in a short time. Anyone from ages 9-19 wanting more information, please call the County Extension Office at 984 - 3021. The Extension Office has a good supply of various bulle tins on freezing and canning fruits and vegetables, as well as bulletins on pickles and re lishes. Lawn Care - We find that far too many of our fescue lawns are being clipped too short. Fescue lawns should, by no means, be clipped closer than two inches. If so, the fescue will turn, and you will soon find yourself with a poor stand. A light application of nitrogen would stimulate your lawn a- bout this time of year. Lemons will not wilt and shrink if stored in water and kept in refrigerator. Place something on top of container to keep lemons under water. STODDARD ives h-%- |V:v 'Swa-f'A-y' ' : BY HAROLD ROGERS Assistant Extension Editor CLEMSON - Farmers across this broad land are having to try every wrinkle they can to stay in business. One of the things they’re going to now in some areas is tailor making the big fields, land forming. It’s a matter of literally re shaping the face of the earth, rearranging the topsoil to e- liminate low spots and give uni form grade. This allows maxi mum utilization of the land, moisture, and big machinery. The end result should be higher yields. Land forming is one of many projects undertaken in this state by the Extension Service to try and help farmers hang on to the tightrope. A field day for demonstra tions was held recently atClem- son’s Edisto Experiment Sta tion in Barnwell County and six others are scheduled over lower areas of the state June through November. C. V. Privette, assistant Ex tension specialist in agricul tural engineering, is working on the project. "The idea," he says, “is sim ply to provide a land surface that will not only move water off the field rapidly enough to prevent flooding but also slow enough to permit adequate in filtration--to get the full benefit of water without damage." There are also other bene fits, labor savings, for instance. First, the field is surveyed. Then an engineer designs a sur face, and soil-moving machin ery is brought in for rough grading. In the final step, it’s finished out to desired scale and grade. “As a result of improved sur face drainage and provision for irrigation, efficient water man agement can be practiced. The field will have uniform mois ture." Privette notes. He cites these other advant ages: --Farm machinery is easier to control and can be operated at higher speeds in leveled land. Uniform ground surface makes planting and harvesting more efficient. --There’s a time saving in turning at the end of a large field rather than several turns in smaller fields. This can equal 25 percent of total time in the field. --Fields will dry earlier in the spring and crops can be planted earlier. The even ground surface allows precision planting and fertilizer'place ment which results in more uni form germination and matura tion over the entire field. All of these should add up to higher production. “The better soil and crop management possible with land forming provides the basis for higher crop yields," Privette says. “Elimination of wet spots and provision for irrigation make efficient water manage ment possible--it'sonlynatural to expect an increase in crop yields." In some other states, reports indicate at least a 10 percent increase in yields from fields that were land formed, he says. Farmers in this state who would like to learn more about the practice might mark dates and places where the field days are tentatively planned: Jasper County, June 25;Clar- endon, July 30 and August 27; Florence, Sept. 24; Marion, Oct. 22; and Chesterfield,,Nov. 19. A covered dish supper was held at Mountville Grange on Thursday night May 21. Re freshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Nichols, Sr. and Alfred R. Gilmore. In the meeting which followed, the Grange voted to send a con tribution to the National Grange Youth Leadership Fund to be used in Youth programs. Mrs. J. H. Thomason Jr. reported that a judging and mod eling show was held on Saturday May 2 and the winners will be entered in the state contest She also reported receiving a let ter of thanks for the eye glass es which the Grange had collected and sent to “New Eyes for the Needy Inc." George C. Grobusky, Master of the South Carolina State Grange was the principal ^Mak er. He said that the Grange needs to recruit new members who will get out and work for the betterment of the communi ty. Most of us take too many things for granted instead of trying to make conditions bet ter, he said. The family unit has been the basis of our socie ty and we must provide more activities for young people, he added. Alfred R. Gilmore told of his work as State Deputy, of his visiting Granges in Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick and New berry Counties to encourage them to increase their mem bership and to enter the various contests conducted by the State Grange. The winners of these contests will be announced at the State Grange session in August Mountville Grange has enter ed the Pride in South Carolina, Grager of the Year and the Nat ional Grange Cotton Sewing Contest. “Well I had that long talk with our boy and / learned a few things.” Set Precedent The Nobel Peace Prize was given to the Interna tional Institute of Law in 1904, setting the precedent of giving the prize to an organ ization instead of an indi vidual Send a letter to North Vietnam. Right now hundreds of Americans are being held captive in North Vietnam. A few prisoners have made it back. They talk about bamboo cages. Vicious beatings. Malnutrition. Humiliation. But the North Vietnamese will tell us nothing. And it’s this silence that makes our appeal more urgent. For the families at home, there is no word on who's alive. Who’s dead. Or even who’s being held. There is nothing. Except the anguish of not knowing. Maybe you can change this. By writing to the one man who can change it: The Presi dent of North Vietnam. Ask him to release the names of prison ers, allow them to write to their families, and let the Red Cross inspect the prisons to insure proper medical treatment and living conditions. Remind him that he is bound by the 1949 Geneva Convention which his country signed. And by the Istanbul resolution. North Vietnamese leaders do care about American public opinion. And if they think they can gain something by bowing to it, they will. But one letter won’t do it. Or a thousand. Maybe it will take millions. So we’ve got to write now. All of us. And often. Write a letter tonight. And send it to: Office of the President, Democratic Repub lic of Vietnam, Hanoi, North Vietnam. It’ll cost you a quarter. But it might save a life. THE AMERICAN RED CROSS + Maybe they’ll open it / ii'